The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-01-05


held, rolled some logs into the rabbit
track " road, rendering 1t impossible for
teams and extremely dangerous for people
attending court at Chelsea, who travel this
road at all times of day and night during
the session OF court. They also piled up a
lot of four-foot wood in the road. The mis-
creants were overtaken by Mr. King who
lives at the foot Of the rabbit track" and
promised better behavior in the future;
l= Walter Hambln's people attended
the wedding of Mrs. Hamblin's brother last
Wednesday evening.
West Randolph.
Mrs j. d. MITCHELL has been visiting
her parents in Bridgewater. - Mrs T..
o. Blanchard is able to ride ont. = Miss
Emma Smith and Miss Florence Huges are
at the formers home from Wellesley Col
lege. 60 Hon. w. II. Dubois, wife and
daughter, visited in Richford and st. AL
bans last week. They were accompanied
by Hon. George Nichols and wife of North
field and Colonel Fred e. Smith and wife of
Montpelier 80 Twigg Brothers Che West |
Randolph branch of the Burlington Cloth
ing Company have decided to remain here
for the present. - The Randolph boys |
in Dartmouth College are at home. -
Miss Hapgood of St. Agnes Hail. Bellows |
Falls is visiting her sister, Miss Yuran.
80 Sunday services are now held at
three o'clock in the Episcopal church. !
- Charlie L. Wheeler will sell his farm
at auction Saturday forenoon. == Albert
Edison of East Randolph lost valuable
COW lately. - Abjah Osgood lost 5000
horse by tree falling on it. = Alice
Edison, the telegraph operator, was at her
home over Sunday. - Rev II. a. Spen-
Ger will speak at a missionary convention at
Woodstock next week - Rev. w. f.
Peters preached for the Normal School
students Sunday evening. 49, Hon. Vic
tor |. Spear of Braintree and Miss Abbie
Davis of Randolph were united in marriage
last week. - The marriage of Ida,
daughter of j. b. Wells, and Clayton Or
cult of Roxbury took place at the brides
home Saturday noon, Rev. w. f. Peters
officiating The happy couple left for Bos-
ton on the fast express the same day.
| - 1'hirty-eight couples attended the
dance in Cornet hall last Thursday evening
4" Joe " had frst-class dance. = John
| Kennev has rented the Red Lion Inn for
pany. No. /, will give a grand calico ball
January q. - The squash that was in
| Wheeler's show-window was cut January
l. 1t contained two hundred ninety-six
seeds. Nelson Seymour of Rochester Hol-
low guessed the nearest. naming two hun.
| dred ninety. and was entitled to the suit OF
clothes People will next have chance to
guess the number of seeds in poppy, and
the winner will receive barrel of sugar.
North Thetford.
Mr.. BLANCHARD will occupy the pulpit in
the orthodox church next Sabbath. -
The Youngest daughter of William Henry
Downer was buried last Monday. - The
| annual society meeting of the Congrega-
tional church occurred last Monday after
noon and in the evening the sale of pews in
the Union church = Singing-school is
held Monday and Friday evenings in
Jaouith's Hail. Scion c. Smith yields the
stick. -S S. X. Berry, with his daughter,
has returned to the city for short visit.
Tunbridge.
Miss ANNIE WOODWARD of Woodstock is
visiting her friends here. 80 Potatoes
now sell for thirty-five cents. - Liberty
Grange held their annual election OF officers
last Thursday evening. The principal Of
fees are filed as follows. Master, Charles
b. Smith: overseer, Clinton Buzzell; lee
turer, A. p Salter; steward, Asahel Keyesi
chaplain, Mrs. Spencer Hackett; treasurer,
: l.. f. Buzzell; secretary, Spencer Hackett
, - The new train over the Central, with
the cheap tickets will accommodate our peo-
| pie very much - There was not a very
large attendance at the Friday evening
, temperance meeting. The night was toe
stormy - Charles McAllster of Wash
! ington visited at DR.. Fish's this week
, - There is another case of scarle,
fever in town and it is feared there will be
. more, as those who have come in contact
with those children that are now sick witt
, it are very careless. - Eugene Sleeper
gave party Christmas night to some chill
dren who could not go to the festival. -
ID. f. Chapman went to Montpelier last
5 week to attend the wedding of his SON Fred
= Miss Jennie Chapman accompanied him
- The members of Rev. Mr.. Hubbard
l and Rev Mr.. Hurd's churches unite in the
9 observance of the Week of Prayer. =-
: From forty degrees above to twenty-foul
| degrees below zero is not an agreeable
y charge
West Fairlee.
On Christmas eve the cantata of " The
Snow King" by L. O. Emerson, was per
formed in Whtneys hall by the singers il
this place in very creditable manner
: - Mrs. William Paul last week re
ceived visit from nephew from London
: the first relative of her own she has seei
since she left England, twenty-five year
+ ago. The young man is an engineer on al
e ocean steamer and has been cruising abou
: in the Mediterranean for some time. =
Z John Robinson of Vershire has moved int
4 this village and will work in Sibleys shop
+ Williamstown.
/ LAST Sabbath the first of the new year
= Rev. r. ID. Miller gave his people most ap
propriate and excellent sermon from thu
text, " If the Lord will we shall both live
+ and do this or that" In the course of thu
= sermon the speaker said: :" once Listened
= to an aged man, now deceased. who ha'
= risen mot, indeed, without carefully LAYING
- plans and earnestly endeavoring to execute
> them, and sometimes successfully from oh
security to distinction in professional life
to the presidency of New England college
and then to that of theological seminary
= heard him say, have laid great man.
:. plans. and tried TO bring to pass what | hat
3 planned, but so far as the leading events o
/ my life are concerned they have general,
y been frustrated and broken up and hav
). come to the conclusion that Gods plan l
II the best one, and that as soon AS can dis
y cover what his plan is | will cheerfully aC
" cept and adopt it rs my own, thus bringing
Z my will into full harmony with his. --
II A Barre StOne-Cutter gave this advice 10 on
X of our successful farmers, who talks of leaN
y ing the farm for business life: Don't TAX
Is hold of anything you are not acquainte
e with. / once got tired of stone-cutting an
I, invested some hundreds of dollars in bus
y ness and at the end of six months got on
}. of it-ninus the investment" To the sam
Us farmer a well-known woman of means, VIII
TT left Williamstown farm and is now Twin
s. in another village, said; "Stick to You
1t farm; you can get living on it. You kno'
L. nothing about what it is to have TO bu
+. everything. If my husband was ten G
II fifteen years younger | would buy a lari
4, and 90 on to il. :" 80 Mr.. Nathan la
d was recently called to Croydon, n. H.. b
al the death Of his aged brother, whom som
re of MS remember as an entertaining Sea-cal
ne tain that used TO visit this place years age
H. He was formerly engaged in the whale-tisl
ne cry. His age was eighty-four years and iiv
months. == The recent Christmas fest
val here, thought by some TO have bee
rarely if ever surpassed. should have had